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Watson/6
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- 1927 - 2013 (Creation)
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1 box; paper.
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Biographical history
George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death on 2 August 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.
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This series arranges offprints, copies and cuttings of articles by writers other than Watson, many of them inscribed to him. Note that when an offprint was accompanied by a letter, it is not to be found here but in one of the correspondence-based series; further cuttings and copies by other writers can be found in Watson/5/30. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.
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ANNAN, Noel: ‘Arnold the Critic’ (‘The Periodical’)
ANONYMOUS: ‘Two Prophets’ (‘Manas’)
BATESON, F W: ‘Modern Bibliography and the Literary Artifact’ (‘English Studies Today’)
BATTESTIN, Martin C: ‘Pictures of Fielding’ (‘Eighteenth-century Studies’)
BAYLY, Christopher A: ‘Moral judgment: empire, nation and history’ (‘European Review’)
BEER, John: Review of Frank Kermode’s ‘Not Entitled: A Memoir’ (‘The Cambridge Review’)
BELL, Quentin: ‘Bloomsbury and “the Vulgar Passions”’ (‘Critical Inquiry’)
BOUCÉ, Paul-Gabriel: ‘Les deux premières traductions françaises des “Gulliver’s Travels”’ (‘La traduction romaesque au XVIIIe siecle’)
BOYDE, Patrick: ‘“Ecfrasi ed ecceitá” in Leopardi’s “Canti”’ (‘Italian Studies’)
BRACHER, Karl Dietrich: ‘Terrorismus and Totalitarismus’ (‘Geschichte und Staat’)
BRADBROOK, M C: 'T.S. Eliot' (supplement to 'British Book News')
BRAITHWAITE, R B: ‘Austin Duncan Jones’ Philosophical Writings’ (‘Analysis’)
BROGAN, Hugh: ‘A History of the “New Statesman”’, review of Edward Hyams (‘The Historical Journal’)
BROGAN, Hugh: ‘Alexis de Tocqueville and the Liberal Movement’ (‘The Historical Journal’)
BUTTLE, Nicholas: ‘Negative and Positive Liberty Revisited’ (‘Politics’)
CAMPBELL, Colin: ‘The Tyranny of the Yale Critics’ (‘The New York Times Magazine’)
CANNADINE, David: ‘Another “Last Victorian”: P.G. Wodehouse and His World’ (‘The South Atlantic Quarterly’)
COLVIN, Christina Edgeworth: ‘Maria Edgeworth’s Tours in Ireland: II. Killarney’ (‘Studia Neophilologica’)
COLVIN, Christina Edgeworth: ‘Maria Edgeworth’s Tours in Ireland: III. Connaught’ (‘Studia Neophilologica’)
COOPER, Helen: ‘Magic that Does Not Work’ (‘Medievalia et Humanistica’)
DAY, Robert A: ‘The “City Man” in “The Waste Land”’ (‘Papers of the Modern Language Association of America’)
DEITZ, Luc: Review of Iulius Caesar Scaliger’s ‘Poetices libri septem’ (‘Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen’)
DUNCAN-JONES, Elsie: ‘Milton and the Tutbury horses: a topical allusion’
DUNCAN-JONES, Elsie: ‘Dryden, Benserade, and Marvell’ (‘The Huntingdon Library Quarterly’)
EDDY, Donald D: ‘John Brown: “The Columbus of Keswick”’ (‘The Journal of Modern Philology’)
FORSTER, Leonard & Jeanne: review of Pepys's 'Tagebuch aus dem London des 17. Jahrhunderts', ed. by Helmut Winter ('Archiv')
FOSTER, Kenelm: ‘Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873)’ (‘Italian Quarterly’)
FROST, David L: ‘Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century’ (‘Shakespeare Quarterly’)
FROST, David L: ‘“The Windhover”: A Commentary’ (‘Theology’)
GILMOUR, Robin: ‘The Gradgrind School: Political Economy in the Classroom’ (‘Victorian Studies’)
GREENWAY, John: ‘A Guide through James Joyce’s “Ulysses”’ (‘College English’)
HARRISON, Bernard: ‘Virginia Woolf and “The True Reality”’
HOLLOWAY, John: ‘Cambridge and English at Cambridge’
HOLLOWAY, John: ‘Poetic Analysis and the Idea of the Transformation-rule: Some Examples from Herbert, Wordsworth, Pope and Shakespeare’ (‘Miscellanea Anglo-Americana: Festschrift für Helmut Viebrock’)
HOUGH, Graham: ‘Vision and Doctrine in “Four Quartets”’ (‘Critical Quarterly’)
JAMES, E D: Review of W G Moore’s ‘La Rochefoucauld: His Mind and Art’
KERMODE, Frank: ‘Two Instances of Interpretation’
KERMODE, Frank: ‘The Uses of Error’
KERMODE, Frank: ‘Literary Criticism: Old and New Styles’ (‘Essays in Criticism’)
KERMODE, Frank: A portion of ‘Not Entitled: A Memoir’
‘John Maynard Keynes: “New Wisdom for a New Age”’
KNIGHTS, L C: ‘Cambridge Criticism: What Was It?’
KRISTOL, Irving: ‘My Cold War’ (‘The National Interest’)
KUNA, Franz: ‘T.S. Eliot’s Dissociation of Sensibility and the Critics of Metaphysical Poetry’ (‘Essays in Criticism’)
KUNA, Franz: ‘Jakobson’s Theory of Language Functions and the Interpretation of Poetry’ (‘Language and Civilization: A Concerted Profusion of Essays and Studies in Honour of Otto Hietsch’)
LEE, Guy: ‘Allusion, Parody and Imitation’
LEIBHOLZ, Marianne: ‘Ein guter Begleiter’ (‘Begegnungen mit Dietrich Bonhoeffer’)
LEVIN, Bernard: ‘The Most Accurate Prediction in History: ‘The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall’ (‘Quadrant’)
‘The Canadian C.S. Lewis Journal’ no. 2
‘The Canadian C.S. Lewis Journal’ no. 3
MacDONAGH, Oliver: ‘The Nineteenth Century Novel and Irish Social History: Some Aspects’
MATTHEW, H C G: ‘The Gladstone Diaries: Introduction to Volumes X and XI’
MERYMAN, Richard: ‘Great interviews of the 20th century: Marilyn Monroe’
MONOD, Sylvère: ‘“Hard Times”: An Undickensian Novel?’ (‘Cahiers D'études Et de Recherches Victoriennes Et Édouardiennes’)
MYLNE, Vivienne: Review of Georges May’s ‘Les Mille et Une Nuits d’Antoine Galland ou le chef-d’oeuvre invisible’ (‘Modern Language Review’)
NAGAO, Teruhiko, 'On Authorial Intention: E.D. Hirsch's "Validity in Interpretation" Revisited' ('北海道大學文學部紀要' = 'The Annual Reports on Cultural Science')
PECHEY, Graham: ‘“Frost at Midnight” and the Poetry of Periphrasis’(‘The Cambridge Quarterly’)
RICKS, Christopher: ‘William Empson: 1906-1984’ (‘The Proceedings of the British Academy’)
ROSE, Paul Lawrence: ‘The Noble Anti-Semitism of Richard Wagner’ (‘The Historical Journal’)
SCHMIDT, A V C: ‘Eliot and the Dialect of the Tribe’ (‘Essays in Criticism’)
SCHUCHARD, Ronald: ‘T.S. Eliot as Extension Lecturer, 1916-1919’ (‘The Review of English Studies’)
SCHUCHARD, Ronald: ‘T.S. Eliot as Extension Lecturer, 1916-1919 (Concluded)’ (‘The Review of English Studies’)
SCHUCHARD, Ronald: ‘“First-rate Blasphemy”: Baudelaire and the Revised Christian Idiom of T.S. Eliot’s Moral Criticism’ (‘English Literary History’)
SKINNER, Quentin: ‘The Origins of the Calvinist Theory of Revolution’ (‘After the Reformation’)
SPEARING, A C: ‘A Simple Value-System’, review of ‘Essays on Malory’edited by J A W Bennett (‘The Cambridge Review’)
STANWOOD, P G: ‘The Richard Hooker Manuscripts’ (‘Long Room’)
STEINHOFF, William: portion of chapter XV of ‘George Orwell and the Origins of “1984”’
TREVOR-ROPER, Hugh: ‘Home Thoughts: Hugh Trevor-Roper on the Peterhouse Effect’ (‘The Independent Magazine’)
WEINRICH, Harald: ‘Narrative Theology’ (‘Concilium: Theology in the Age of Renewal’)
WELLEK, René: ‘Coleridge’s Philosophy and Criticism (To 1956)’ (‘The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism’)
WELLEK, René: ‘The Fall of Literary History’ (‘Geschichte – Ereignis und Erzälung’)
WENDER, Dorothea: ‘Plain in Diction, Plain in Thought: Some Criteria for Evaluating Translations of the Iliad’ (‘American Journal of Philology’)
WESSELING, H L: ‘Editorial: changing views on Empire and Imperialism’ (‘European Review’)
WIDDOWSON, H G: ‘The Deviant Language of Poetry’